I was told they were much in each other's company, constantly dining together, and on all occasions expressed most cordially their mutual esteem.
All this I think could only have happened in America.

I am not quite sure that it was very desirable it should have happened any where.
In noting the various brilliant events which diversified our residence in the western metropolis, I have omitted to mention the Birthday Ball, as it is called, a festivity which, I believe, has place on the 22nd of February, in every town and city throughout the Union.

It is the anniversary of the birth of General Washington, and well deserves to be marked by the Americans as a day of jubilee.
I was really astonished at the _coup d'oeil_ on entering, for I saw a large room filled with extremely well-dressed company, among whom were many very beautiful girls.

The gentlemen also were exceedingly smart, but I had not yet been long enough in Western America not to feel startled at recognising in almost every full-dressed _beau_ that passed me, the master or shopman that I had been used to see behind the counter, or lolling at the door of every shop in the city.

The fairest and finest belles smiled and smirked on them with as much zeal and satisfaction as I ever saw bestowed on an eldest son, and I therefore could feel no doubt of their being considered as of the highest rank.